Japanese UFO & Alien Story From 1825 Still Endures Today

Monday,
December 1, 2014

Japanese
UFO & Alien Story From 1825 Still Endures Today

In the early 1800s, two folk tales circulated around Japan. Both
involved a very strange woman emerging from a very strange ship. Her dress and
appearance seemed out of this world. What happened?

There are two versions of this story. One was written in 1825 and one in 1844.
In both versions, some Japanese sailors happened to notice, floating in the
ocean, a very strange vessel. It was circular, which was not so unusual. What
caught there attention was that it seemed to have a lid that covered the top of
the ship, and glass windows. When they got it to shore, out came a very
beautiful woman holding a very mysterious box. She wouldn't let anyone touch
it. They couldn't ask her about it, because she didn't speak their language.
All the materials making her ship, her clothes, and her box, were completely
unknown to them. Eventually, the woman went back to her boat, and drifted out
to sea again.

Well, that's
the boring 1844 version. The 1825 version plays out more like an old BBC murder
mystery. You can tell, because the woman is more of a vamp. She has bright red
hair and eyebrows, and red hair with white extensions. Plus, the box was
bigger. The size of the box provided a crafty local with an important clue,
and, after consideration, he announced his conclusions. The woman was a foreign
princess who had had an illicit love affair. The lover had been beheaded, and
the princess was put to sea in a craft, with his head in a box. The villagers,
aghast at the hussy in their midst, pushed her and her vessel into the sea
again.

As short as it is, the myth about the strange-looking vessel made with foreign
materials has become an enduring favorite of ufologists. They believe that,
possibly, a flying saucer crashed in the sea, and washed up on land. Possibly
aliens were trying to blend in by matching our technology, sending flying
saucers when we could fly and sailing saucers when all we could do was sail.
When people argue, the ufo believes point to the unnatural substances of the
woman's clothes and ship. They argue that, although people weren't as savvy in
those days as we are today, they people in the legend were hardly yokels. They
would have recognized most kinds of materials and most kinds of vessels. This
utterly foreign being might have been crash-landed, or might have been on a
scouting ship.